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company" to reflect current usage. The use of the concluding phrase
"or any other legal or commercial entity" is intended to be broad
enough to include other forms of business entities that may be
created or popularized in the future.

 
23. Section 102(21): Place of business: Prior Provision:
Rules 203A-3(b) and 222-1 of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

 
24. Section 102(23): Price amendment: Prior Provision: RUSA
Section 101(11). A price amendment may be used in a registration
coordinated with the Securities and Exchange Commission procedure
in Section 303(d). In the case of noncash offerings, required
information concerning such matters as the offering price and
underwriting arrangements is normally filed in a "price"
amendment after the rest of the registration statement has been
reviewed by the Securities and Exchange Commission staff. See
generally 1 Louis Loss & Joel Seligman, Securities Regulation
542-550 (3d ed. rev. 1998).

 
25. Section 102(24): Principal place of business: Prior
Provision: Rule 222-1(b) of the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.

 
26. Section 102(25): Record: Prior Provision: Uniform
Electronic Transactions Act Section 2(13). Cf. Section 3(a)(37)
of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The Uniform Electronic
Transactions Act §2(13) defines record in nearly identical terms.
The Official Comment explains:

 
This is a standard definition designed to embrace all means
of communicating or storing information except human memory.
It includes any method for storing or communicating
information, including "writings." A record need not be
indestructible or permanent, but the term does not include
oral or other communications which are not stored or
preserved by some means.

 
This term is intended to embrace new forms of records that are
created or popularized in the future. A record would include, but
not be limited to, a registration statement, report, application,
book, publication, account, paper, correspondence, memorandum,
agreement, document, computer file, or disk, microfilm,
photograph, or audio or visual tape.

 
27. Section 102(26): Sale: Prior Provisions: 1956 Act Section
401(j); RUSA Section 101(13). Both the 1956 Act and RUSA
definition of "sale" are modeled on Section 2(a)(3) of the
Securities Act of 1933.

 
Language in Section 401(j) of the 1956 Act addressed the now
rescinded SEC "no sale" doctrine and has been eliminated. Merger


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